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Beauty and the Beast
La Belle et la Bête
1946 · Film · 96 min
Directed by Jean Cocteau
The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.
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La Belle et la Bête [1] is indeed one of my favorite films...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(1946_film)
Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la bête), and Orpheus.
Try the version of Beauty and the Beast with the Phillip Glass soundtrack (basically turning the film into an opera).